I completely agree!! I was listening to the soundtrack on Spotify and it got to what would be around 1:37 in this video and I was CACKLING ITS SO PASSIVE-AGGRESIVE 😂
but the acting here also helps - the passive aggressiveness and meg's insincere warmth was not very obvious in the australian production, which made it a bit more shocking when meg and her mom were revealed to hate christine here in this production, meg very obviously rolls her eyes in annoyance at christine HAHA very effective
I love how Meg is the whole reason Christine shared her voice with the world to begin with, and now Meg is jealous of the fame Christine has and then attention she captured from Phantom.
I love how Madame Giry is all like "he who pays the bills" like NO "he who put his family in thousands of dollars in debt and is now a child neglecting raging alcoholic"
Though i love the cast, im really disappointed with the stage design. It seems zuch a downgrade from the australian version where everything looked more extravagant, and it really looked like you were in another place.☹
Andi Alberto: The London version was not a downgrade, it was more a dress rehearsal. The Australian version came later, and, with it, came many upgrades, including improvements on the song Dear Old Friends.
@@corvusdelicti8853 ooooh i actually thought that the australian cast came first!😅 thanks for telling me! I appreciate the london production a lot more now!
I like this so much better than the Australian one, the passive aggressiveness of the Giry's and Raoul and Christine being totally oblivious 😂 I'm kind of shocked that the Raoul that played with Sierra for Phantom actually ended up in the Australian production instead.
I just noticed in 3:12 Christine pushes Madam Giry’s hand away from her, then continues to refrain from touching her even though she has no problem with touching anyone else. Weird detail since Madam Giry kinda raised her, and they didn’t end on a bad note in POTO?
I love this version of the song...you can *hear* the daggers in their words. Yes, everything is very polite and restrained...but you can feel the tension and animosity. I agree with @SereneGohSH: this interpretation makes the ending make much more sense than the Australian version does.
Rainier Flores Yep, like in this version Christine says “You look sublime” while Meg says “You look the same” while it’s the other way around in the Australian
Chris yeah I noticed that in this version Meg *SPOILERS* seems to purposely shoot Christine, while I’m the Australian version it looks very much like an accident caused by the Phantom reaches for the gun.
Anna O'Byrne has a beautiful, stunning voice but her acting skills are not that great. I didn't felt the emotion needed in her performance. Sierra have it all, she is just brilliant!!!
i wonder how long it will take for everyone to realize this was a play not a huge movie production and secondly this isnt a different version of the original this is continuing after the fire ..... its 10 years later soooo yuh characters wont stay the same just saying also Happy Halloween :)
The interesting thing about this song is how it showcases how both Christine and Meg have changed over the past 10 years…and how they are both completely miserable but trying to hide it from each other. Christine may look ‘Regal as a Queen’ but she is trapped in a failing marriage separated from music which she loves. And Meg might be a ‘Star’ but she’s a star of a vaudeville show trying to get the attention of a Man who will never want her. I also find it funny how Christine is the only one in this song who actually seems sincere like she’s not trying to ruin it for Meg, she’s just trying to appease the Phantom so she can go home (with some money). Later on we know she does it because she wants to sing for him, but her attention was never to steal the spotlight from Meg…but Meg has been so beaten down at this point and is just so desperate for some recognition from Erik she sees the writing on the wall right away and then the jealousy sets in.
the song is good the harmonies are great BUT THE CHARACTERS ARE NOT THE CHARACTERS! if you link this to phantom of the opera, you need to at least mantain the character development that started there. Or maybe explain??????????? Like when did meg started hating Christine??????????? because of jealousy?????????? oh andrew what did you do
* SouthernStar I will definitely give it a try. I also looked up the German version of the show and it looks beautiful! Rachel Anne More is my second favorite Christine and shes in that too! I mean there were so many changes in the original one, and then the Australian one... I feel that even ten years later, if it still hits the broadway theaters it will be different from what we’ve seen
@@larissaprates1384 oh it already came through america, I saw it in rhode island and it was good though "beauty underneath" was changed entirely. But yes the whole things with meg (that was mostly cut from the play but is important to know) that for 10 years the whole reason phantom got phantasma and was able to grow so big so fast was because Meg was sleeping with the press, cops and tax men. She literally gave her body blood and soul to phantom and grew to love and respect him, not caring about his face. But he never once SAW her. Which is why when he sings to her at the end she so easily stops freaking out and listens to him. She loves him, she just wants attention and recognition then christine comes back and ruins everything. It literally broke her. It's not just jealousy, it's self hatred and abandonment.
daecromancer ahhh this enlightens everything else! At the end she mentions something about all the man, but I didn’t know it was in that magnitude. Do they explain it better in the us tour? And what changed in beauty underneath?
@@larissaprates1384 unfortunately they didnt explain it better in the u.s tour. It was a much better known plot point in the original london script. In one of the original cast recorded songs you hear madame giry say something like "there is a man looking for you, a mister- *name i forget*" and meg looks up and says "is he important?" Cuz in the original london recording what shes done is more apparent but it also requires reading subtext. Well in the u.s beauty underneath, id just look it up to listen to the song. They put in different lyrics and the notes are all a lower pitch, darker and more metal. Its jarring to listen to the old version then the U.s version but it grows on you.
This is a passive aggressive reunion inside of a sweat bar with all the windows closed and the jukebox barely works and we have to stay here for 6 hours...
Haha in the american version giry doesnt confront him, she sings to meg complaining about erik and saying meg should get everything she deserves and meg is like mom calm down
Ich sehe gerade ihr habt Musicals da ich glaube auch ihr habt das Phantom der Opera wo das Phantom mit der Frau singt mit dem Lied träum mich denn immer noch ganz nah das Phantom der Oper da wenn ihr das Musical habt mit dem Lied würdet ihr es bitte einsetzen bitte bitte ich mag das Lied unheimlich gern bin Fan von Phantom der Oper Gruß unbekannt Kerstin Werner Wünsche schönen Sonntag eins noch die Frau singt erst tief dann sind sie für das Phantom höher ich glaube das Lied kennt ihr
The stage setting, the singing, and the acting of all of them compare with the Austrian version. This video is a very poor performance. It looks like a production from a high school performance. I can not believe it is from the London West End cast.
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This is the most passive-aggressive song I've ever heard.
Ahahahha yes 😂😂
I completely agree!! I was listening to the soundtrack on Spotify and it got to what would be around 1:37 in this video and I was CACKLING ITS SO PASSIVE-AGGRESIVE 😂
Gino Sanchez One of the first passive-aggressive songs for theatre would have to be Mozart’s ‘Via resti servita’ from THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.
Hahahaha This comment made me laugh LOL
but the acting here also helps - the passive aggressiveness and meg's insincere warmth was not very obvious in the australian production, which made it a bit more shocking when meg and her mom were revealed to hate christine
here in this production, meg very obviously rolls her eyes in annoyance at christine HAHA very effective
i genuinely love how passive aggressive this whole song is, and the fact that christine probably was actually quite sincere
Especially when she sang "hope it extends" then read the room and was like "no? Okay-"
@@psionicdreamer3302 honestly christine always seems like she has no idea whats going on in this song its so funny
@@SpiderTNT. i suppose shes still kept some of the innocence from her phantom days
You look sublime, you look the same....
I love how Meg is the whole reason Christine shared her voice with the world to begin with, and now Meg is jealous of the fame Christine has and then attention she captured from Phantom.
I’d be jealous of having the phantoms attention too 💀
it's the fact Christine is actually being genuinely lovely then the others are putting it on so much
Everyone’s chill until they find out Christines singing too 😂
This is the song from Love Never Dies that makes me want to be there arguing with them. I mean the harmonies in the near end, I just can’t
I love the "hope it extends. No ?!" at 4:11
Christine: "You look sublime!"
Meg: "You look the same."
Christine: "You are a star"
Meg: "And you are... wife"
lmaooooo this bitch
Anyone else notice the way Raoul looked at Meg? Up and down, stared at her chest with a grin. It’s hard to believe that he changed that much.
Honestly the costume for the London version were pretty amazing imo, they didn’t really have to change it. The only crime here is the set.
@Meg Giry oh hi Meg.... U ok? How's everything...? And where are you after, you know, what happened?
This stage design looks like a high school production 😳
That’s probably because there are so many different sets in this show, so they don’t pay as much attention to the more minor scenes.
That’s WHAT I SAID
@@jamies9040 oh no trust me the sets in the london production suck even in the major scenes
@@dargonfrot ugh that sucks🤦♀️
@@jamies9040 yupp
I’ve never been able to see full footage of the West End production EVER! Let alone, HD! Thank you so much for posting these videos!
I love how Madame Giry is all like "he who pays the bills" like NO "he who put his family in thousands of dollars in debt and is now a child neglecting raging alcoholic"
This version of Meg is taller than Christine! (my perception of Meg is that she's very short and petite for some reason)...
Janet Chan same here
Her heels are awfully high though, plus lets not forget its a 10 year difference here
This is even cattier than the Australian version lmaoooo
Agreed. But I would love the Australian Meg to be here
Though i love the cast, im really disappointed with the stage design. It seems zuch a downgrade from the australian version where everything looked more extravagant, and it really looked like you were in another place.☹
Andi Alberto That (besides the story, obviously) was the biggest complain about the London production.
I loved it. It fell great when I was there.
@@operaghost7381 is there any chance you could upload the coney Island waltz and only for you? Would love to see them!
Andi Alberto: The London version was not a downgrade, it was more a dress rehearsal. The Australian version came later, and, with it, came many upgrades, including improvements on the song Dear Old Friends.
@@corvusdelicti8853 ooooh i actually thought that the australian cast came first!😅 thanks for telling me! I appreciate the london production a lot more now!
Any clips you have and can post for us is very much appreciated! We are all Phantom lovers and appreciate you and doing this for us
Thank you for posting more of LND.
I really love this music from the musical
yes! i absolutely love this song and all it’s passive/aggressiveness lol
hhahahaha LOL yes
I like this so much better than the Australian one, the passive aggressiveness of the Giry's and Raoul and Christine being totally oblivious 😂
I'm kind of shocked that the Raoul that played with Sierra for Phantom actually ended up in the Australian production instead.
Wish they kept this version in the Australian production. So much more venom
I just noticed in 3:12 Christine pushes Madam Giry’s hand away from her, then continues to refrain from touching her even though she has no problem with touching anyone else. Weird detail since Madam Giry kinda raised her, and they didn’t end on a bad note in POTO?
I love this version of the song...you can *hear* the daggers in their words. Yes, everything is very polite and restrained...but you can feel the tension and animosity.
I agree with @SereneGohSH: this interpretation makes the ending make much more sense than the Australian version does.
I just noticed even the lyrics have been slightly changed compared to the LND of Australia.
Rainier Flores Yep, like in this version Christine says “You look sublime” while Meg says “You look the same” while it’s the other way around in the Australian
@@ausername5410 I think Australian Production didnt want to create the Evil Meg. Meg here was so mean.
Chris yeah I noticed that in this version Meg *SPOILERS* seems to purposely shoot Christine, while I’m the Australian version it looks very much like an accident caused by the Phantom reaches for the gun.
In fact, these were the original ones and the Australian ones were changed
Thank you
wait i just noticed- christine and raoul looks at each other when the sang "so i pretend" does that mean anything hm
time stamp?
3:20
they have to pretend they are a happy couple in order to keep the fact that they are in debt a secret.
I think they are pretending to be a happy couple and not having marital issues.
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Thank you!😍
Thank you :)
What does Meg say at 3:25
In the orginal and other.
"You musn't stay!"
"Why would I leave/Go?"
"Why are we here?"
"Don't play naive!" "Other Lyric!"
I think she says "like you don't know."
descalante64 I hear why won’t you go
I saw it in London before the changes. I NEVER want to see it again!!!
Perfeito !
Thank you so much!❤️ this is a real treat in those hard times '
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Anna O'Byrne has a beautiful, stunning voice but her acting skills are not that great. I didn't felt the emotion needed in her performance. Sierra have it all, she is just brilliant!!!
True. Totally true.
Truee
I respectfully disagree. I think that Anna is a better singer and actor than Sierra. But we all have different opinions.
I dont see why people say this, her acting was more subtle than sierra but did justice to the character
Rayany Rocha honestly, Sierra is my favorite for both LND and Phantom, but at the same time Anna is my favorite in LND If that makes sense.
i wonder how long it will take for everyone to realize this was a play not a huge movie production and secondly this isnt a different version of the original this is continuing after the fire ..... its 10 years later soooo yuh characters wont stay the same just saying also Happy Halloween :)
I don't think it's 10 years....
Timeline's confusion 😔
@Christine Daaé Ten years for LND but definitely not for POTO
The interesting thing about this song is how it showcases how both Christine and Meg have changed over the past 10 years…and how they are both completely miserable but trying to hide it from each other.
Christine may look ‘Regal as a Queen’ but she is trapped in a failing marriage separated from music which she loves. And Meg might be a ‘Star’ but she’s a star of a vaudeville show trying to get the attention of a Man who will never want her.
I also find it funny how Christine is the only one in this song who actually seems sincere like she’s not trying to ruin it for Meg, she’s just trying to appease the Phantom so she can go home (with some money).
Later on we know she does it because she wants to sing for him, but her attention was never to steal the spotlight from Meg…but Meg has been so beaten down at this point and is just so desperate for some recognition from Erik she sees the writing on the wall right away and then the jealousy sets in.
the song is good the harmonies are great BUT THE CHARACTERS ARE NOT THE CHARACTERS! if you link this to phantom of the opera, you need to at least mantain the character development that started there. Or maybe explain??????????? Like when did meg started hating Christine??????????? because of jealousy?????????? oh andrew what did you do
* SouthernStar I will definitely give it a try. I also looked up the German version of the show and it looks beautiful! Rachel Anne More is my second favorite Christine and shes in that too! I mean there were so many changes in the original one, and then the Australian one... I feel that even ten years later, if it still hits the broadway theaters it will be different from what we’ve seen
@@larissaprates1384 oh it already came through america, I saw it in rhode island and it was good though "beauty underneath" was changed entirely. But yes the whole things with meg (that was mostly cut from the play but is important to know) that for 10 years the whole reason phantom got phantasma and was able to grow so big so fast was because Meg was sleeping with the press, cops and tax men. She literally gave her body blood and soul to phantom and grew to love and respect him, not caring about his face. But he never once SAW her. Which is why when he sings to her at the end she so easily stops freaking out and listens to him. She loves him, she just wants attention and recognition then christine comes back and ruins everything. It literally broke her. It's not just jealousy, it's self hatred and abandonment.
daecromancer ahhh this enlightens everything else! At the end she mentions something about all the man, but I didn’t know it was in that magnitude. Do they explain it better in the us tour? And what changed in beauty underneath?
@@larissaprates1384 unfortunately they didnt explain it better in the u.s tour. It was a much better known plot point in the original london script. In one of the original cast recorded songs you hear madame giry say something like "there is a man looking for you, a mister- *name i forget*" and meg looks up and says "is he important?" Cuz in the original london recording what shes done is more apparent but it also requires reading subtext. Well in the u.s beauty underneath, id just look it up to listen to the song. They put in different lyrics and the notes are all a lower pitch, darker and more metal. Its jarring to listen to the old version then the U.s version but it grows on you.
Larissa Prates lmao Rachel Anne. My name is Rachel Anne Emily 😂
This is a passive aggressive reunion inside of a sweat bar with all the windows closed and the jukebox barely works and we have to stay here for 6 hours...
People: coughs
Everyone freezes*
ooooh the design is is different to the Australian production!
Do you have a full bootleg?
*you look the same.*
_GEE THANKS I HAVEN’T AGED AT ALL AHAHAHAHAHAHA!_
Is this the 2011 nft video?
Thanks. Can you upload madame giry confronts the phantom? Please
Haha in the american version giry doesnt confront him, she sings to meg complaining about erik and saying meg should get everything she deserves and meg is like mom calm down
daecromancer I believe this is the London version.
@@maurifick7471 yes this is, I was talking about the american version as a comparison
do u have the full show?
What makes me hate LND is the character betrayal of Meg. She was so sweet and then became an angry and vingative woman. It' doesn't fit her for me.
I think you can see her obsession with Erik kind of start at the end of Phantom, when she holds up the mask
Please please! Do you have the aerie?
They do, if you look up the playlist from this youtuber there should be i think 12 videos including the title song
🤩
Do you have a full boot? This was my first ever west end musical, during a school trip. I'm willing to trade :)
Who is that playing raoul?
Dean Chisnall (understudy Raoul)
I much prefer the Australian staging / choreography but if we could have Sierra and Ramin then I’d be truly happy
This isn't the 25 anniversary mme giry is it
Yes, Liz robertson
It is, her portrayal in RAH is actually better than this
Do you have a full show? I’d give absolutely anything for a copy! :)
Have you got a copy already? Been looking for this. I've seen one but it wasnt recorded well
Man they're singing it so much slower
Ich sehe gerade ihr habt Musicals da ich glaube auch ihr habt das Phantom der Opera wo das Phantom mit der Frau singt mit dem Lied träum mich denn immer noch ganz nah das Phantom der Oper da wenn ihr das Musical habt mit dem Lied würdet ihr es bitte einsetzen bitte bitte ich mag das Lied unheimlich gern bin Fan von Phantom der Oper Gruß unbekannt Kerstin Werner Wünsche schönen Sonntag eins noch die Frau singt erst tief dann sind sie für das Phantom höher ich glaube das Lied kennt ihr
is devil take the hindmost up?
It is.
2:15
The stage setting, the singing, and the acting of all of them compare with the Austrian version. This video is a very poor performance. It looks like a production from a high school performance. I can not believe it is from the London West End cast.
Yes, the London production came earlier than the Australian one, and with it came more extravagant changes.
These are some damn good highschoolers then... 😂😂😂 I'm only kidding the set is lacking but you've got to admit the voices are great
Phantom should have married Meg. Period!